The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly), 21 December 1916
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The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly)
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Title Section15 1916-12-21 1 The Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. THIRD SERIES THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1916. No. 1,53415 words
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Article192 1916-12-21 1 LFADER3 PAGK cc of Rumania's Entry 335 The Nigerian Ring 395 Premium Bonds 393 The Voice of the People 386 The Situation 395 (iarinan Misunderstandings 388 Forces ou the Fronts 386 Need for Organisation 387 Boy Training 397 The Man in the Spot 387 Education A Comparison 387 POLICE192 words
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Article101 1916-12-21 1 Dec 20. Tin (125 tons) 87.67J 14.50 Mai m%9 No, l 22.50 MM 3ii No. I 19.50 k ritti B*pott si.oo FeW 87>00 i) **> tbft f >> m 80.00 N. 103 %a tisa IfcJ nom. e ta) 75.00 Ciu ;itO nomi ft Bl*ck) Dom. 4 Md p^ar! -'mi101 words
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Domestic Occurrences.
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Article75 1916-12-21 1 Lin ton— At Sagamore, Ashtead, Surrey, on 29th November, the wife of A. R. Linton of a POD. Tobutt.— On 7th December, at St. Mark's Hill, burbiton, Surrey, the wife of H. K. C. Tobutt, of a son. Cruickshank.— At Caledonia. P. W., on the 13th instant, the wife75 words
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Article169 1916-12-21 1 The outward mail arrived by train on Dec 8 with dates to Nov 7. This weekly leaves by train to morrow. Judgment haa been delivered by his lordship in the Supreme Court in an im portaut case concerning t&e winding up of enemy firms. Some interesting points169 words
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Article57 1916-12-21 1 (COBKBCTHD UP TO Dec 20 > Bank 4 mi %-ii M demand l-i} PfiTBU ectdifea Bmi 1-4 29 32 Faono* demand Bank M 825 IrtoiA, T. T. 172| licaasosa, demand B^% Pm Yc^CE4HA, dtmand 109^ Java, dtmand 136^ BmesOE, damand 65| 3071R»16^8, B«nk Buying 18.5 4 B&nk oS Bagland57 words
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Article, Illustration552 1916-12-21 1 Dec. 15. Public feeling over the war, like the war itself, is Here we go up, here we go down" The over-running of the western part of Rumania has caused many long faces, and it is quite interesting to read the Home papers which described the552 words
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Article424 1916-12-21 1 One of the dangers frequently pointed out in these columns as attached to the coming system of confining the commerce and trade of the Empire to the Empire (or to the Empire and its Allies) has assumed marked importance in the case of the Nigerian oil seed424 words
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Article605 1916-12-21 1 Dec. 16. A great many prejudices, based mainly on sentiment, have been wiped away in the course of this war, thus enabling everyone to see a little more clearly through the conventional mists which surround us in ordinary peaceful daily life. It is therefore not inappropriate that having605 words
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Advertisement149 1916-12-21 1 Subscribers Jo the "Singapore Free Press" weekly retmuini* from Europe to the Straits bfj any of the mail lines, are invited to send to the ■■■■fflf the name of their steamer and llatc ot arrival in Singapore. < Copies will then bo iPiiilt -d to meet them at various ports149 words
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Advertisement103 1916-12-21 1 Singapore Gold Storage Co., Ltd. Near Eotraooa to Boroao Viiirf. oneTeleph 1026. Sea stocks of all kinds of Frozen Meats etc., can be delivered to shipping at the Wharves, or in the Singapore Roads on hi*.* aotice. OFFICE HOURS. Vsekdays 7 a.m. to S p. a, Sandajs J 2 pm103 words
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Article497 1916-12-21 2 The present changes in the Governments of 'he A lied nations England, France and Russia, and the quite re cent changes in the Italian Govern ment, are not to be looked upon as swapping horse9 whon fording a stream," but rather as being made in497 words
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Article604 1916-12-21 2 Dec. 18. Bar the continued retreat of the Rnsso Rumanian forces still further east, the war news in to day's wires is decidedly more encouraging. In Rumania the position is as decidedly discomforting. Fetesti is on the way from Bukbnrest to the great Czernavoda Bridge, and is not604 words
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Article585 1916-12-21 2 The present German peace proposals are generally taken as a catch of some kind, to sow dissension among the Allies, to influence neutrals, or to secure a fresh starting off place for German aggression. But another reason is suggested (before the event, and therefore all the more notable)585 words
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Article310 1916-12-21 2 Dec. 19. The receipt of an official wire oc Sunday from Paris giving the distribution of the enemy's force is not entirely 8n innovation, but the details are fuller than are usually contained in oiicial communications. The wire gives I2tt divisions on the Western Front h>ft310 words
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Article376 1916-12-21 2 This confirms tho impression that the French figures deal with the whole of the enemies forces, while IflMiT I relate only to the German armies. Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey are, on thi* basis, responsible for 100 division^ amongst them, say two million men. To translate these figures of divisions into376 words
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Article514 1916-12-21 3 From hia own experience and from a large number of references in Ilome papers the thoughtful man will come to the conclusion that any scarcity of munitions, food or raw material in Britain is due rather to absence of organisation than to absence of the. material wanted.514 words
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Article597 1916-12-21 3 Dec. 20. Many opinions have changed since Lit Col BADEN Powell laid it down emphatically that the Boy Scouts movement had no military intention or likeness, and one of the most certain things as a result of the war is that a scheme of boy training, which was597 words
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Article779 1916-12-21 3 When the local head of a business gets a little off colour with the strain of carryiug on with depleted staffs and under the present abnormal conditions, he naturally, that is humanly, wishes for the time when he can retire, feeling "just in the humour779 words
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Article786 1916-12-21 3 Education A Comparison. Dec. 21. Particularly in educational matters could advantage be taken in tbis Colony of comparison witb wbat is being done in places engaged in the same great work of tbe betterment of tbe masses of the population. For here as in Ceylon, the Philippines, India, Burma, and786 words
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Article116 1916-12-21 4 We are not at liberty to mention at this stage the details of the new scheme which Major General Ridout promised would shortly be made public in connection with active service in Europe or elsewhere by men in Malaya, but we have reason to116 words
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Article150 1916-12-21 4 Mr A S Gulston, at one time with the E Telegraph Coy, and afterwards an assistant on Bakab Estate, is now a 2nd Lieut in the Berkshire Regiment. The farm of les Chambrettes which haa changed hands several times and remains finally in French possession, is about midway between Vacherauville150 words
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Article71 1916-12-21 4 The following figures of Subscriptions to the Straits Settlements War Loan from Nov. 15 to Dec. 14 are supplied. Total amount subscribed $4.510,700(a) Total amount remitted to 15 12 16 £524,000. Total number of Applications 637. Total number of Subscribers 585. The applications were for 1,437 bonds71 words
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Article222 1916-12-21 4 Yesterday morning, in the Supreme Court, the action was to have continued, before the Chief Justice (Sir John Bucknil!, K C) in which Sayna Abdul Kader sued the Siam Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., as owners of the steamer Yugala, claiming 91,725 for damage to a tongkang. It was222 words
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Article163 1916-12-21 4 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, Dec 20. At the inspection of the Penang Volunteers, Major General Ridout stated that there is a very considerable number of Europeans of military age in Malaya who are not needed for defence purpojee. These men should go if they can163 words
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Article201 1916-12-21 4 Barlow's Refort. Singapore, Dec 20. Rubber. For the Auction this week some 1100 tons were catalogued but of this quantity only 522 tons actually came under the hammer, the demand being such that sellers were obliged to withdraw large numbers of parcels. Owing to lack of competition201 words
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Article88 1916-12-21 4 Singapore, Dec 20th. At the Auction held to day the demand was poor and prices showed a sharp decline. Standard Crepe and Standard Sheet sold up to $142 a drop of $23 on the week. Only one parcel of each grade, however, reached that figure the averages being88 words
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Article50 1916-12-21 4 Supervisor Listerman of the Monopolies Department, in the second police court yesterday charged Koo Soo Seng of Albertst, with being in possession of five baskets of dutiable tobacco value 1170, The accused was convicted and fined 975 with the alternative of six weeks rigorous imprisonment, the tobacco being declared confiscated.50 words
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Article1049 1916-12-21 4 If I were asked, When is a blockade not a blockade I should reply. M Peep in the docks of London Britain's main strength lies in her sea power. It is at the docks that sea power finds expression. Despite the operations of German submarines pin pricks to1,049 words
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Article356 1916-12-21 4 V C Who Captured 102 Germans. Sergeant Tugg, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who witnessed Private Tom Jones, of Runcorn, win hi6 Victoria Cross, described the amazing way in which the Cheshire soldier captured single Lauded 102 German prisoners. "On September 25," eaid Sergeant Tugg,356 words
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229 1916-12-21 4 Sir William Robertson has sent the following letter to the Biehop of London with reference to the great national campaign which the Church of England is now conducting. This ie to wieh you complete succese in your National Mission work. I fear that229 words
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Article93 1916-12-21 4 Kassim, a Malay motor car driver, was charged in the second police court yesterday with ra6h and negligent driving and doing injury to Tang Whatt Quee in Seletar-rd. He was remanded until Janu ary 3rd. complainant being in hospital on bail of 1100. Mr Abraham Frankel of Victoria fit in93 words
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Article167 1916-12-21 5 To the Editor. >u Si i r ;7^ In l° Ut Val ed iMae of Monday the 11th inst. reference was made to the delay in obtaining water through the mams to the street hydrants when the tire broke out at 6.14 pm on Saturday, the 9th167 words
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Article407 1916-12-21 5 To no Editor. Sir,- Just one word for any who may have been attracted to this Bcience Burgers Astronomy for All (l) j 8 now, by the kindness of home friends, before me. It is Popular "—and poe tical— to a degree, and, while quite free from the Flammarion407 words
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Article131 1916-12-21 5 The handsome Wigmore- street premises of C Bechatein, the German pianoforte firm, including the Bechstein Hall and a stock of 137 pianos, were offered for sale yesterday by Messrs Knight Frank and Ratley and bought by Messrs Debenham and Frecbcdy for £56,600. The auction room in131 words
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Article136 1916-12-21 5 A motorcar containing the Colonial Secretary and a military officer, and driven by a native driver, knocked down and killed a Malay boy in Changi rd, on Monday evening. The Chuwo is responsible for the re port that an exhaustive etatemert made by the Foreign Minister at the Cabinet Council136 words
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Article765 1916-12-21 5 Alleged Profit of £980,00 oo a French Deal. In the King's Bench Division, on Nov. 3, the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury commenced the hearing of an action Stewart and another v. Lyon. The plain tiffs were Messrs FT^rold Crisp Stewart and Mr William765 words
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Article96 1916-12-21 5 The wedding arranged between the Hon F S James, cm g, and Mies Doris Baeevi will take place at St Andrew's Cathedral on Jan 20, 1917. One of the overhead trolly wires on the town to Tanjong Pagar route, nearly opposite the police court, broke some where about midday. There96 words
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Article249 1916-12-21 5 Difficulties of trade in respect to shipping in the Netherlands Indies, referred to in our Java News yesterday, are thus dealt with in a home shipping paper. If we are to judge by the reports which are appearing in the Dutch papers, the shipbuilding industry of Holland is249 words
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Article221 1916-12-21 5 The lot of the German woman has been much more difficult than the lot of the woman in the Allied countries, for upon her has fallen the great and increasing burden of the struggle to get enough to eat for her household. In practically all classes221 words
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Article354 1916-12-21 5 During the heavy Bhower of rain which fell yesterday mid-day, which certainly gave the town drains a thorough cleansing, we came across the Hongkong papers lamenting the drought there. Little or no rain has fallen for several months and the reservoirs are alarmingly low. Not since 1909 has there been354 words
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Article474 1916-12-21 5 Neutrals' Position. It does astonish me, writes Mr. Arthur Pollen in Land and Water," that the neutrals do not seem to see, in the position which Germany has created, something far more menacing to them than to us. There is not the faintest chance of our losing474 words
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Article196 1916-12-21 5 I. Now this is a tale the poplars tell Of the road to Armenteers, Where we marched right up to the gate a of Hell, Off and on for a couple of years. 11. One weary march o'er the cobbled stones, When we couldn't breathe for heat196 words
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Article107 1916-12-21 5 The recent concert of the Selangor St Andrew's Society realised $1,014, to which has to be added collection at St Andrew's Presbyterian Churcb of $66, making a total of 91,080. A cheque for £130 has been sent to the Grand Fleet Fund. Captain Antonio Leite Magalhaes and Lieutenant Pedro Teixeira107 words
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Article771 1916-12-21 6 The Malay Mail hears that Mr W H Lee-Warner has been transferred to the Consular Service at Sabang (Sumatra). The Bishop of Peterborough has given directions that in munition areas in the diocese church bell ringing on Sunday mornings is to be shortened or the bells771 words
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Article2008 1916-12-21 6 RIGHT OF A LIQUIDATOR TO SUE. Important Judgment. In the Supreme Court yesterday, the Chief Justice (Sir Jobn Bucknill, k c) delivered judgment in the case heard by him a few days ago, in which the parties were two liquidators of enemy firms in the Colony. Mr.2,008 words
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Article127 1916-12-21 6 At noon yesterday there was not a seat to be had iu the downotairs portion of the theatre, except in trie last three uack rows, and most of the first three or four rows of the upstairs seats were el6O booked, and what were left rapidly127 words
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Article54 1916-12-21 6 S. Sano, Japanese captain of the steamer Kwang Lee, was summoned in tbe fhet police court yesterday at tbe instance of the Postmaster General with failing to deliver one sack of mails at tbe port of destination without delay. Tbe defendant pleaded guilty through ignorance and was54 words
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Article112 1916-12-21 6 The usual weekly auction of the Singa pore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association was held on Wednesday when there was offered for Bale J 0,259 34 pkls or 1,867,912 lbs. (Tone 610 67). Pbices Realized. Sheet smoked fine ribbed $155 to 1165 good ribbed 155 157 fine112 words
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Article142 1916-12-21 6 A quiet wedding was solemnised at St. George's Church on Monday between Mr William Hunter Bruce, Manager of Wai brook Estate. (Dusun Durian Rubber Co.) Sitiawan. Perak, to Mies Ethel Lucy Poolter, daughter of the late Mr Wil'iam Poulter of Southsea, Hants, England. The R-v. Keppel Gamier,142 words
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Article105 1916-12-21 6 The Agenda Nnzionale's Zurich correa pondent saye The fall of Mona&tir and the Italian advance in Southern Albania having endangered Durazzo and Klbaeean, the German General Staff has advised the Austriana to evacuate those places. Mr M Mouchly, of Port Said, whose bid was J2O, has become the owner of105 words
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Article779 1916-12-21 7 Lieut G Day has been appointed temp, captain Singapore Volunteer Rifles. nn^ l6^ ma d% by the Gown °r in Council under the Midwives Ordinance are publißhed in the Gazette. The Viceroy has decided not to attend the Calcutta Race Meetings this year. The King Emperor's779 words
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Article464 1916-12-21 7 Singapore, Dec. 18. Business throughout the week has been on a email scale, the stiffening of the price of rubber has enabled some companies to make highly remunerative forward contracts but in only a few instances has there been any decided advance in this class of investment464 words
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Article27 1916-12-21 7 From Our Own Corrupondeni London, Dec 15. The following dividends are announced. Interims. Linggi 30, Anglo Malay 20, Kepong 15. Finals. Krubong 15, Rembia 12j.27 words
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Article270 1916-12-21 7 Mr F G Jeavons has been tranferred from a machine gun corps to a Tank." He is to be married on Jan. 25th. When Mr Douglas Campbell returns to Johore Mr F J Weld will go to Taiping us Registrar of Titles. (M. M.) Mr F R Meeson has obtained270 words
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Article1108 1916-12-21 7 Quicquid agunt homines nostri es\ farrago libelli Juvenal. Bethmann Hollwegg'B speech in annouDcing that peace proposals had been made is a fair sample of the German mentality, which is another name for megalomania. If the German victory is so complete that they can afford to be1,108 words
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Article530 1916-12-21 7 Dividend of 20 Per Cent. The annual general meeting of this company was held on Nov. 3 at Winches ter House, Sir William Hood Treacher, k. c m o. (the Chairman), presiding. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the expenditure on immature area530 words
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Article61 1916-12-21 7 The woman in the glen near Ben Nevis who, on firet hearing of the war, supposed it was those weary Jacobites come again," was, at any rate, more enlightened than the owner of a large- wold farm in Lincolnshire who told an exemption tribunal that. he "just knew a war61 words
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Article253 1916-12-21 8 Mr Cathcart Wason is suggesting that as the Bulgarian Premier took possession of the Serbian Legation in Sofia last spring we should take over the enemy embassies in London and use them for public purposes during the war. This would involve the occupation of enemy territory, for an253 words
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Article176 1916-12-21 8 Since the beginning of the work of the American Commission for the relief of Belgians 12 relief ships have been lost, of which two, and perhaps three, were torpedoed and the rest mined. A Eurasian giving the name of Emile Denis Nash was convicted in the second police court yesterday176 words
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Article323 1916-12-21 8 Aggrieved Man's Lucky Neighbours. The Municipal Commission met in the board-room yesterday afternoon to consi der assessment appeals. There were present the President (Me FJ Hallifax), Dr Veerasamy and Messrs Roland Braddell, J A Elias, E Tessensohn. M A Numazie, See* Tiong Wah aud J Polglase (Secretary.) Several323 words
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Article1300 1916-12-21 8 From Our Oxen Correspondent A Notorious Pacificist M. P. Edinburgh, Nov. 8. Mr J H Whitehouse, m p, is at present in the Uuited States, exerting himself in a way which, aa Lord Robert Cecil said of Hiss Hobhouse'a visit to Germany, hae not beta in the interests1,300 words
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Article64 1916-12-21 8 Japanese papers of Nov 28ih contain accounts of a severe earth quake in the Kobe district, originating about 30 miles east of Osaka. Buildings were shaken and ceilings riven chimneys cracked, windows broken and articles thrown down. The ehock was comparable in intensity to that of 1891.64 words
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Article149 1916-12-21 8 A pretty military wedding took place at St Mark's Church, Seremban, on Wednesday at 10 a.m., when the marriage was Eolemnieed of Lieut. William Lethbridge Leonard, M S V R, second son of Mr WilHam Leonard, of Coventry, to Jessie Stuart, elder daughter of Mr James Reid, also149 words
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Article57 1916-12-21 8 The Germane claim to have discovered rubber in thistles. They can make anything." Daily Paper. The Hun's discovered how to get Good rubber out of thistles, He can extract from mignonette Fine fats and bones and gristles, From phlox he manufactures meal, And sausages from roses, And finds57 words
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Article645 1916-12-21 8 City Men and Peace Terms. Conditions of peace with our en, mie*in bo far a6 sea-power is concerned werr dierupsed at a meeting of the In peria! Muitime League, held at the Merchants H-\!l. St Mary axe, on Nov. I The definite object cf summoning City men645 words
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Article236 1916-12-21 8 Mr and Mrs W G Maxwell are expected back by the next P and 0 mail. Mr Max well goee to Perak as Acting Resident (T. O. M.) la consequence of claims for exceee profits duty, Lanadron Estates will pay no interim dividend. The Commissioners assess the company at £8,800236 words
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59 1916-12-21 9 Monday, December 18, 1916 ROLL OF HONOUR. K. L. Journalist Killer!. From Our Oxen Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Oct 18 Captain H N Marriott, of tbe Malay Mail, a«d the I2tb BatfYotkt, was report ed k!,i e l on Nov 13. War Profiteers. A hundred residents of Port Swettenhaai imve petitioned59 words
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Article297 1916-12-21 9 3, Et C. DEFEAT THE GARRISON. Au enjoyable cricket match was played on the Esplanade on Saturday, the 8 R C defeating a team repiebenting the Garrison. The Club total was due chiefly to the efforts of De Scuza, Galistan and S D Gauder, and they closed their venture297 words
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Article146 1916-12-21 9 S. G. C. v G. G. C. Played yesterday. Conditions IS holes, match play one point for win, quarter point for bye. Scores Hutcheson and Gordon 1 vs Peter kin and MacMillan i. Wardle and Dean 0 vs Teale and Capt Law 1. Mugliston and Forde I vs Everitt146 words
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Article184 1916-12-21 9 A Pioneer cable, dated London, Dec 2, says The Greek army previously reported to have taken the arms demanded by the Allies into the interior is now said by the Corriere Delia Serra's Athens correspondent to be in the Allies' rear in Macedonia and to be fully equipped. This move184 words
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Article700 1916-12-21 9 FRANCE'S MOTORS AT VERDUN. 4 000 in Continual Use. Mr Henry Wood, special correspondent of the United Prets with the French Army, writes It is not improbable that some future poet will eiug the song of The Four Thousand Automobiles of Verdun." When the Germans began their big700 words
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Article145 1916-12-21 9 Mr F W T Laraprey, of Rim Estate, has gone to replace Mr H M Hariop ae mana ger of Alor Gajah Estate. On Saturday, in the District Court, Nehmat bin Mohamed Noor waa convicted of house breaking by night, by entering the house of Mydin, of 4 4 Jalan145 words
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Article1622 1916-12-21 9 1. THE SEA VOYAGE. From what one r^acU in the Londcn papers much fine gold l« finding its ea~y way from the pockets cf our Australian and New Zealand brothers into the many suitable receptacles for cash with which the voluminous vestments of1,622 words
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Article129 1916-12-21 9 Chief Detective Inspector McAfee in the third police court on Saturday charged Lee Lim, alias Wong Fook. with unlawfully returning from banishment. The accused wa9 committed to the next Asaizey. Lee Sang, a passenger by the steamer Fook Sang from Cbioa porte, was con victed in the second police court129 words
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217 1916-12-21 10 The Cologne Zeitung in an article describes how the German shipping companies are systematically preparing for peace. Shipbuilding has been continued unceasingly by them for the 27 months of the war, all the lost toDnage has been replaced. Sufficient keels have been laid down to217 words
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Article143 1916-12-21 10 Mr G Beatty, of Bukit Asahan, has left on a trip to Yokohama, where he will meet his brother, Mr F E Beatty, late of Malacca. Lim Yam Keng, a Teochew, was convict ed in the District Court, on Friday laet, of house-breaking by night, by entering the house of143 words
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Article496 1916-12-21 10 The December issue of the M S V R magazine ie on Bale. It contains a quantity of good reading matter, regimental and humorous Dot that the former is not sometimes the latter. Two matters dealt with we should like to emphasise for the benefit of our own496 words
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Article176 1916-12-21 10 Many members of the Swimming Club, as well as others in Singapore, will regret to hear of the death of 2nd Lieut. Henry P Dudley, of tha Hongkong Bank, who went Home from Singapore shortly after the beginning of the war, and joined the 7th Royal176 words
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Article164 1916-12-21 10 The third performance on Saturday night showed no diminution in the size and enthusiasm of the audience that goes to hear the latest spectacular musical ex travaganza of the ADC. And the performance itself increases in interest rath" er than diminishes, nowithstanding the danger of stale-ness on the164 words
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Article204 1916-12-21 10 A deputation from the Trade and Industry Committee of the Royal Colonial Institute and Societies in London representing Crown Colonies and Colonies not possessing responsible government was received by Mr Bonar Law, m P, Secretary of State for the Colonies, for the purpose of urging204 words
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Article275 1916-12-21 10 Mr Gilbert C Smyth, of the Siamese Southern Railway, has received a commission in the Royal Engineers and has proceeded to work on the railways in France. Prior to gaining his commitRion Mr Smyth served in the Officers' Training Corps. Zakaria, a Mahomedan Indian, was charged in the second police275 words
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Article546 1916-12-21 10 ANOTHER "LUSITANIA" CRIME Survivors' Sufferings. London, Xov. 14th. The Daily Chronicle's Marseilles correspondent telegraphs Only the fortunate circumstances of a smooth sea, the nearness of a few steamers, and tbo elowness with which she succumbed, prevented the An-i-'a becoming a second Lusitania. Listening to survivors' narratives one could546 words
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Article174 1916-12-21 10 £*****,000 DUTCH SCHEME. After being discussed for three quarters of a century the preposition to drain the Zuyder Zee has finally reached the form of a Bill introduced into the Second Chamber of the Netherlands Parliament (says an American Consular report). It provides for a dam acro6s174 words
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Article78 1916-12-21 10 A email pox epidemic, the worst for four yeare, has broken out in Hougkong, the area chiefly affected being the Western district. No less than 80 cases oc curred in the first few days of this month. Last month there were 72 cases and 44 of these were dumped. On78 words
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Article453 1916-12-21 10 Speaking at the meeting cf Dunlop'e Sir Arthur da Cros said It was said that German competition had been eliminated, and that was per fee: y true, but it had been replaced by American competition, which was far more severe, as he proceeded to explain. Tbe net453 words
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Article366 1916-12-21 10 Mr G X Cochrane, of the F M S Railways, had a nasty accident on Wednesday while out with the local Civil Guard. He stepped into a hole and fell heavily on hie left shoulder, which wae r ather badly damaged. (M M Teh Eng Lee, a Hokien of 4366 words
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265 1916-12-21 11 Tuesday, Dec. 19, 1916, NEW MOTOR CAR REGULATIONS. some rather important additions are made to motor car and traction engine regulations by the amended rules under the Ordinance, which were published in last week's gazette. A new rule is that no motor car cr traction engine which is likely to265 words
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Article165 1916-12-21 11 In the the 4 magistrate's court yesterday Mow Ah Ko.v of Selegie rd for riding his motorcycle in a rash nnd negligent ■mm in Battery rd on November 30th wag tinad $10 and costs. Yeo Ah Suak for overcrowding his car with 6ix persons was fined 95165 words
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Article319 1916-12-21 11 The Malay Mail of which he was part proprietor gives the following appreciation of Capt. H N Marriott. We deeply regret to announce the death in action of Capt. H X Marriott, one of the proprietors of this paper and for nearly seven years an active319 words
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Article83 1916-12-21 11 nost the big cities of Germany i D| meetings twice a week rucbices &re u.od, nod the total M ichct Mloundtog figures. s x- cent is ti.k^n from the amount 11 pmt cont of whi-h fO6l to the state tot cLar!t.b'e work and 6 poc cent remains for tfei raciug83 words
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Article1061 1916-12-21 11 Frcm Our Own Corretpondeni Weltevreden, Dec. 16. Since last reporting trade locally, up to toe beginning of the present week, wa& brisk in most articles of export. The Rubber Market *oo coutinued strong with an upward ton< in prices. During the week ending D. r. 9 several important1,061 words
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Article239 1916-12-21 11 Committee's Recommendations. From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Dec 18. The following is a complete list of the extra taxen recommended by the F M 8 War Taxation Committee A surtax oa tin ore arid block tin. If the price of tin is uoder 180,239 words
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Article62 1916-12-21 11 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, Dec 18. After the inspection of the Malay States Volunteer Rifles at Taiping, and witnessing Sunday's successful manoeuvres, Maj. Gen Ridout inspected the Province Welles ley Volunteers at Caledonia and Butter worth on Sunday afternoon, and expressed his satisfaction. At the inspection of62 words
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Article141 1916-12-21 11 The Lady Superior of the Penang Convent has recehed the following telegram regarding Gunner L V Hart, a former member of B fl Company, Penang Vol unteers Hart, care Sister Superior, Pniiang Regret 1705 Gunner L. Hart Voluntnor Artillery Battery, daugerously ill, Mesopotamia, 2nd December, contusion chest.141 words
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Article123 1916-12-21 11 Thanks to the kindnees of Mr Frank Hilton, fcbfl children of the Ministering Children's League and St Mary's Home epert a rnoet happy afternoon in the groundi at Neidpath on Saturday la^t. Lorri*^ wore kindly lent by the C:j*d Storixze Co for the conveyance of the cbildreu, who numbered about123 words
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Article864 1916-12-21 11 If you climb the steep graesy bill above the court house that inevitable symbol of British occupation where litigitous villagers wrangle all day long before bored officials at Victoria Point, you will obtain a matchless view of tbe siam coast, southernmost Burma, and a sea sprinkled with islands.864 words
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Article28 1916-12-21 11 Mr J W Oillman, superintendent of the Bukit Singeh division of Oaring Estate, is acting bb manager in place of Mr H C Butler, who ie dill ill.28 words
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Article78 1916-12-21 12 A soccer match was played on the Esplanade yesterday evening between a somewhat scratch S C C team and an eleven from a warship in port. The Club were one up at the interval, and shortly after crossing over the navy men equalized, which seemed to buck up the78 words
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Article635 1916-12-21 12 Rubber price for duty in the F M S, Dec 22 28tb, is 3s lid. tax to be assessed at $165 a pikul for all grades. Mr S K Wong has compiled a concise wage reckoner for the Straits and F M S with tables for months with varying numbers635 words
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Article60 1916-12-21 12 A special general meeting will be held at Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 6th to confirm alterations in the rules of the Association. The new rules are much simpler and more compact. The lay members are reduced in number, Singapore, Selangor and Penang returning three each, South Perak60 words
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122 1916-12-21 12 Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1916. OUR MAN POWER. G. O. C's SPEECH AT PENANG. Facilities foi Fighters, From Our Own Correspondent Peoang, Dec 19. Maj Gen Kidout, following the inspection of the Volunteers, remarked on the improvement shown, and on the importance of every member attending all drills possible to receive122 words
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Article88 1916-12-21 12 The following paragraph from the Malay Mail printed at the foot of the list of new war taxes explains the difficulty which occurred in expanding our Kuala Lumpur correspondent's wire in yesterday's issue. Income Tax. It was unanimously recommended that an income tax be levied88 words
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Article159 1916-12-21 12 The guru of £50.000,000 was subscribed to War Charity funds during the first two ypnrs of the war, including donations from the Dominions and Colonies. The total includes £20,000,000 for the relief of distress and the re establishment of men returning to civil life, £6,000,000 for sick and159 words
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Article358 1916-12-21 12 We regret to learn that the death occurred on Sunday of Mr E Sweney, of the Survey Department, Xegri Sembilan. (M M) A Javanese named Mustan bin Sasmin, of Confederate Estate, was convicted in the District Court of house-breaking by night with intent to commit theft at 1,440 Changi-rd, on358 words
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Article476 1916-12-21 12 S. C. C. DRAW WITH SHROPSHIRES. Quite an exhilarating game of soccer was seen on the Esplanade last evening by a large crowd of spectators, the occasion being another meeting of the S C C and Shropshire elevens. The two tides have become friendly but very keen rivals, and476 words
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Article233 1916-12-21 12 Id the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr Justice Sproule, the action was continued in which Mr C Everitt and Mr H D Mundell claimed from a Chinese nonia named Low Cbee Neo and another the Bum of $10,000, which it was alleged was obtained by misrepresentation. Mr C233 words
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Article177 1916-12-21 12 The subject of restricting the supply of coal in our ports to our own ships after the war is thus dealt with in a letter to Fairplay. At the close of the war the 6hips of Germany will be her greatest liquid asset, Should it not then be made perfectly177 words
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Article195 1916-12-21 12 In the senior magistrate's court yesterday afternoon the Licensing Justices met to consider the applications for renewals and transfers of hotel and public bouse licences for the year. l 9l 7 The B3ard consisted of Mr Langbam -Carter f President), Dr Middleton, Lieut Commander Cator and Messrs195 words
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Article370 1916-12-21 12 The Increases in Fares. The Chief Secretary (Sir E L Krockman, KCMO) has issued the following statement It ie believed to be a recognised principle that increased facilities and low rates increase the gross revenue from passenger traffic on railways. That hae hitherto been the principle on which370 words
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Article235 1916-12-21 12 In a casualty list published in London on Xov 23 under Killed 16 the name of Capt H VV H Raweon, Oxford and Bucks L I. This must refer to the Perak planter of that name, who held a commission in the 3rd Battalion of the regiment in question. It235 words
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Article3920 1916-12-21 13 LLOYD GEORGES ELOQUENT SPEECH Confident of Victory PREMIERS RESPONSIBILITY London, Dec 19.— 1n the House of Commons Mr Lloyd George Baid he appeared before the House, with the most terrible responsibility that could fall on the shoulders of any living man a8 the chief adviser of the3,920 words
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Article393 1916-12-21 14 The mining land belonging to the Belat Tin Mining Company Limited situate at Kuantan, Pahang, having an area of 699 acres and 37 poles together with the machinery were sold by auction at the Saleroom of Powell Co Limited on Tuesday aftercoon to Mr Chan Keng Teng for $6600. Ung393 words
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Article754 1916-12-21 14 [By Submarine Gable] [Renter*! Service] Ottawa, Dec 12. Four persons were killed, 12 are mis?iug and 15 were injured in a fire at Quaker Oats factory at Peterboro, Ontario. The damage totals three hundred thousand sterling. Amsterdam, Dec 15. Counb Koerber'o resignation is the eeneation cf Vienna where the754 words
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Article1386 1916-12-21 14 London, Dec 13. The Russian com muniqne bays South cf the river Trotus in Moldavia we captured a Hue of trenches and repulFtfl counter attacks with great lottett Tee enemy ifl stubbornly resisting our advance north of I) Drna Vatra. The Rumania?* took the offensive on the high1,386 words
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Article140 1916-12-21 14 London, December 15. The steamer, Stureula, Harlyn, Harlington, Barnhope. British the Bjoer, Norwegian, and theEmma Laurent* a fourmasted barque* French. London, Dec 16. Sinkings: Bretwalda (Biiti6h) Salamis (Greek) Vidar end Kanpangfrr (Norwegian) /era (Portug ueee) Solon (Danish schooner); Pclauder (Swedish schooner). London, Dec 14— The India140 words
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Article2257 1916-12-21 15 London. D £C 14.— A despatch from Sir Douglas Haig says that patrols endeavour ing to enter our treucl.es eastward of Arinectieres were driven cff. We bomharied trencher in the neighbourhood of Festubert, Xeiive Chnpelle and Ypres. Paris Dec 12 —A French correspondent says tiie mutual bombardment 012,257 words
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Article2425 1916-12-21 15 Paris, Dae 13— The newepaperg agree the peace proposals are contemptible and form a new manoeuvre with the object of dividing the Alliaa aad influencing opinion in Germany and neutral countries. In view of Germany's habit of preparing n££iessiocß under cover of negotiations it behoves the Allies to2,425 words
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Article139 1916-12-21 16 In tbe first police court yesterday, Woe Tiam Hork, towkny of chop Ban L?nng, was fined fifty dollars and costs for not leturnicg his permits of tobacco and cigarettes exported within twenty four hours after the goods had been exported. Among the forthcoming marriages nr ranged to take place in139 words
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Article1442 1916-12-21 16 Petrograd, Dec 14. A Eemi official note reviews previous German efforts to create the idea of neace prospects among her own people in order to obtain their support and animate the troops. It dwells on attempts to sow discord among the Entente Powers by reports of a1,442 words
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Article184 1916-12-21 16 Me J W Corny as Carr, the dramatic author fxud cri;.:c, whose death Renter announces, at the age cf 67 was io hi6 younger d^.ys, n. member of [be legal pro feeeion, and bo was weil known bf a journalist in thfl Mtrlj MfflMltiM184 words